A 14-year-old boy has shot dead four people, including two students and two teachers, and as well injured nine more others when he opened fire at a high school in the US State of Georgia on Wednesday.
The suspected shooter who is also a student at the school had been brought to the Federal Bureau of Intelligence’s (FBI) attention more than a year ago for threats to commit a school shooting, the agency said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation disclosed that the perpetrator was taken into custody after Wednesday’s shooting and will be tried as an adult on murder charges.
After the latest chapter in America’s gun violence crisis with nearly 400 mass shootings this year alone, people gathered at a sports field outside Apalachee High School, some forming a circle with their arms linked.
“Our school resource officer engaged him,” county sheriff Jud Smith told reporters, referring to law enforcement officers employed to work at US.
